Hindustani Lyrics is Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook's collaborative translation of Urdu poetry from mainly the 18th and 19th centuries. Included among the authors is Asif, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, and Zafar, the last emperor of the Mughal Empire. Most of the poems involve the Sufi themes of love, longing, and a yearning for the divine. At the same time, according to translator Jessie Duncan Westbrook, the poems undercut and resist ideas of religious orthodoxy through an ecstatic pantheism. ( Zeeshan Reshamwala)

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Hello!
When I added the name of the second Translator (Jessie Duncan Westbrook) and the names of each of the several authors in the compilation, the Template would give me an error. I finally submitted it without the names and it worked.

I've put the names of the individuals poets into the section titles so that readers would be able to figure out which poets are included. Also, I realized that in the recordings for the first three sections I've been saying "Chapter One," "Chapter Two" etc. in the introductory part. I've been wondering if I should say "Section One" instead, because of how short the poems are. Please let me know if this is okay, and I can go ahead and make the changes.

Hi Zeeshan!
I agree that Section instead of Chapter would be better, or you could say Poem. I am glad you put the names of the poets in the section titles. That will be great for the listeners.
I look forward to listening to them all.
Thanks,
Amy

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